Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.

It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease.