I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.

Men become friends by a community of pleasures.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.