Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.
In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.