A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.