Prudery is ignorance.

What cities, as great as this, have... promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others... Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds; there their senate-house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile; temples and theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruins.

A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.