One can never outlive one's vanity.

As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

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

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.