Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

The more we do, the more we can do.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.