It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.

I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects.