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

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.

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.

The reason that women do not love one another is - men.

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.