The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

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

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.