You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.

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

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

A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do

Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.