Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.

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

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

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

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

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

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me