All mankind love a lover.

Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have slept or if you have head ache or sciatica or leprosy or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace and not pollute the morning.

A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.