Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.

I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the thirst of the soul; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy, however otherwise insipid, by which it may be quenched.

There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.