All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

The synonyme of usury is ruin.

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.