As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

Love is only one of many passions.

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.