No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the re-establishment of its original constitution.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.