Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased.

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.

Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.