Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

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.

In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.