I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

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

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.