Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

Prudery is ignorance.

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 always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.