Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions fortuitous, destroy the value of their friendship, obstruct the efficacy of their virtues, and set them below the meanest of those who persist in their resolutions, execute what they design, and perform what they have promised.

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.

He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.