Silence gives consent.

The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.

Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Happy were we all born philosophers; all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind.

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.