No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

Solitude begets whimsies.