Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.