Men are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!

In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish, good sense.

The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?

A learned fool is sillier than an ignorant one.

We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous for its prey.