My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

The business of life is to go forward.

The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes.

Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.