It has been shrewdly said, that when, men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise which censure which we do not deserve; and still more rare to despise praise which we do.

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

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.