To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

The insolence of wealth will creep out.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

To get a name can happen but to few. A name, even in the most commercial nation, is one of the few things which cannot be bought . It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.