You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.

Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step.

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable.

Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.

Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, asit is called, which is the manner of exerting that disposition, is different in almost every country, and merely local; and every man of sense imitates and conforms to that local good breeding of the place which he is at.

No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.

In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.