Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.