A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.