Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them.

Doubt is the vestibule of faith.

There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.