Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.

The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.

Men become friends by a community of pleasures.

Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.