"I am not fond of arguments, because they are generally productive of more heat than light."

"Eloquence, as well as the other fine arts, must be cultivated with care."

"We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are of the same kind."

"The greatest wits, and the greatest fools, are equally innocent of the world."

"If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would app…"