Solitude begets whimsies.
people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.
We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.
to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress.