You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

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.

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.