Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript

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

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

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

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