No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.

The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

Your aspirations are your possibilities.