There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.

Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.