Unconstraint is the grace of conversation.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.