No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.

I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they were rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves and of one another.

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

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.