Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.