The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.

The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

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