No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.

What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes.

A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.