We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.

There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Inquiries into the heart are not for man.

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.

Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign the use of their own eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favor those whom they profess to follow.