The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.
If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.