A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.

But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite to the great and mean, to the celebrated and obscure; the art of moderating the desires, of repressing the appetites; and of conciliating or retaining the favour of mankind.

When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.