The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.

Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.

He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.

To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.