Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

men do not suspect faults which they do not commit

Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls.

It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.

No man hates him at whom he can laugh.

In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.

Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?