I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.

It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

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

If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.

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.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.