Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered.

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.