Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

Crime generally punishes itself.

Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.