There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible how destructive it is. Economy, on the one hand, by which a certain income is made to maintain a man genteelly; and waste, on the other, by which on the same income another man lives shabbily, cannot be defined. It is a very nice thing; as one man wears his coat out much sooner than another, we cannot tell how.