Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.
Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.
A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.