The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts; they do not mean to lie; but, taking no pains to be exact, they give you very false accounts. A great part of their language is proverbial; if anything rocks at all, they say it rocks like a cradle; and in this way they go on.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.

There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.