Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.
People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.
General notions are generally wrong.
My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.
No modest man ever did or ever will make his fortune.
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.