Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

Measures, not men, have always been my mark.

Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.