Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.