The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.