Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.

Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.