Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

To know truly is to know by causes.