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.

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

While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.

Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.