Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

The ungrown glories of his beamy hair.

The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies.

One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.