A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.

There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.