There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.

We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours.

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.