When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.

May you live all the days of your life.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.