As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth by falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages. A peace will equally leave the warrior and the relater of wars destitute of employment; and I know not whether more is to be dreaded from streets filled with soldiers accustomed to plunder, or from garrets filled with scribblers accustomed to lie.

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.