Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

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