To buried merit rise the tardy bust.

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.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.

Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.