Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in their own hearts disapprove the opinions which they industriously spread among the multitude.

Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in their own hearts disapprove the opinions which they industriously spread among the multitude.

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

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.