Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

There are male as well as female gossips.

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.