Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance
There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.