Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.

An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.