True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

Solitude begets whimsies.

In short I will part with anything for you but you.

Forgive what you can't excuse.

I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.