A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.

In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.