Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.

Once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man would be rich, powerful, and famous; yet fame, power, and riches, are only the names of relative conditions, which imply the obscurity, dependence, and poverty of greater numbers.

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.