The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.
When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.
Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.
The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.
Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.
The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.