Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.