The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest

Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other; such are the changes that keep the mind in action: we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated; we desire something else and begin a new pursuit.

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain; the exactest vigilance and caution can never maintain a single day of unmingled innocence.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.