No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

Among the numerous requisites that must concur to complete an author, few are of more importance than an early entrance into the living world. The seed of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public. Argumentation may be taught in colleges, and theories formed in retirement; but the artifice of embellishment and the powers of attraction can be gained only by a general converse.

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.

I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.

Security will produce danger.

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.