Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.

Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.