Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.