A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.
Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.