Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.

The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.

Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.

Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.