Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

Measures, not men, have always been my mark.

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.