The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.

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

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

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

No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.