Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.

The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.