We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege or tempest.

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.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.