The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.

I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.