Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Unconstraint is the grace of conversation.

To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day

Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.