I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
Prudery is ignorance.
It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
The first blow is half the battle.
Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.