The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.

The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.