Women are extreme; they are better than men, or worse.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height.

The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.