It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
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.
True friendship is self-love at second-hand.
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
Without life there can be no action — no objects of pursuit — no restless desires — no tormenting passions. Hence it is that we fondly cling to it — that we dread its termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.