If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.

The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

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.