Eloquence, when in its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.