Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself