Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But for the same reason everyone is eager to instruct his neighbours. To be wise or to be virtuous is to buy dignity and importance at a high price; but when nothing is necessary to elevation but detection of the follies or faults of others, no man is so insensible to the voice of fame as to linger on the ground.

A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest

Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.

Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.