Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.
In sovereignty there are no gradations.
A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.
Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains.
He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.