A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.

Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.