Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.