men do not suspect faults which they do not commit

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

In a Man's Letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirrour of his breast.

Hunger is never delicate.

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.