The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.