If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.

Were I to be angry at men being fools, I could here find ample room for declamation; but, alas! I have been a fool myself; and why should I be angry with them for being something so natural to every child of humanity?