The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.

A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.

I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other; such are the changes that keep the mind in action: we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated; we desire something else and begin a new pursuit.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.