A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts.

It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.