The dangers gather as the treasures rise.

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.

In such a government as ours no man is appointed to an office because he is the fittest for it--nor hardly in any other government--because there are so many connections and dependencies to be studied.