I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.

To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.

Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished.

Once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb.

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.