Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

The memory is perpetually looking back when we have nothing present to entertain us. It is like those repositories in animals that are filled with food, on which they may ruminate when their present pastures fail.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.