Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.

It is not enough that you can form nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You must also know when to deviate from them, and where lies the exception.

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.

True joy is only hope put out of fear.

Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness.