What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.

What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one hastens through by-paths to private profit, no great change can suddenly be made; nor is superior knowledge of much effect, where every man resolves to use his own eyes and his own judgment, and every one applauds his own dexterity and diligence, in proportion as he becomes rich sooner than his neighbour.