Writing is the painting of the voice.
I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.
It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.
What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.