No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.

Contentment is better than divinations or visions.

What is reading but silent conversation?

Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.