In a Man's Letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirrour of his breast.

Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.

It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth much, when it has suffered the devastations of a siege.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man would be rich, powerful, and famous; yet fame, power, and riches, are only the names of relative conditions, which imply the obscurity, dependence, and poverty of greater numbers.