Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.

Virtue is too often merely local.

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest