Opinion is a powerful party, bold, and without measure.

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

Every movement reveals us.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.