Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.

The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

The present is never a happy state to any human being.