By writing, you learn to write.

Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.

What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed desire of improvement, will grow more knowing.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.