What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.

Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.