In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.
Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.