Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.