Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

The triumph of hope over experience.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

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.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.