Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.
Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.
[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.