Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it

It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.

There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.