A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

Love can be founded upon Nature only.

May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.

Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.