Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.

All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.

Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.