The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

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

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.

When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.