I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.