These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege or tempest.

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.

What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.

The synonyme of usury is ruin.

Most men are unwilling to be taught.