Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Men become friends by a community of pleasures.

Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.