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.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

Observation is an old man's memory.

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

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

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.