No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.

Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted.

False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken by the sun, will be pleased to see a fainter orb arise on the horizon, that may rescue him from total darkness, though with weak and borrowed lustre.

Every man is of importance to himself.

A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.