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

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.

To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.