“Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice”

“Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature”

“Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible”

“Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable”

“No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory in”

“Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner”