Men hate more steadily than they love.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.

Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

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