When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour in improving themselves, they set a proportionate value on their own thoughts, and wish to enforce them by efficacious expressions; speech becomes embodied and permanent; different modes and phrases are compared, and the best obtains an establishment. By degrees one age improves upon another.

There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.

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

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.