Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...

None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

Men become friends by a community of pleasures.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

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

When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.