So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that acknowledges the obligations of morality and pleases his vanity with enforcing them to others, concludes himself zealous in the cause of virtue.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.

Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.