Security will produce danger.

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

Inquiries into the heart are not for man.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.