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

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they were rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves and of one another.

There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.