Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.

In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.

Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the re-establishment of its original constitution.

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.