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

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.

It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.