If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in the pursuit of truth; if he writes not to make others learned, but to boast the learning which he possesses himself, and wishes to be admired rather than understood, he counteracts the first end of writing, and justly suffers the utmost severity of censure, or the more afflicting severity of neglect.

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.