The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man would be rich, powerful, and famous; yet fame, power, and riches, are only the names of relative conditions, which imply the obscurity, dependence, and poverty of greater numbers.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.