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

How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.

Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight.