There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.

As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.