We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.