A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man.

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.