Applause abates diligence.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

In sovereignty there are no gradations.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.