If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.