Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

Historians are gossips who tease the dead

Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.