Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.

For who is pleased with himself.