A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning; he that thinks with more subtilty will seek for terms of more nice discrimination; and where is the wonder, since words are but the images of things, that he who never knew the original should not know the copies?