He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.