Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts.

The joy of life is variety.

The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.