Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

None are happy but by anticipation of change.

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.