Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.

It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him