Why did I love her? Because it was her; because it was me.
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.
I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.
A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.