Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute.

But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the pleasure of possession, will be for some time our sorrow for the loss.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.