In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.

Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.

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

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.