Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.

Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.

There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave and seek prey only for himself.

Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.