Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.

The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.