About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.

Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.