Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have additional senses, and their capacities enlarged not only above other men, but above human comprehension itself.

It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.