Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.