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.

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

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

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

The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest

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