One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.

No man hates him at whom he can laugh.