Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour in improving themselves, they set a proportionate value on their own thoughts, and wish to enforce them by efficacious expressions; speech becomes embodied and permanent; different modes and phrases are compared, and the best obtains an establishment. By degrees one age improves upon another.

Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.