A fool and his words are soon parted.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.

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

The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

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