wit is often its own worst enemy.

why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.