They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.