No Pleasure Is Fully Delightful

There Is Not Much Less Vexation In The Government Of A Private Family Than In The Managing Of An Entire State.

Our Skin Is Provided As Adequately As Theirs With Endurance Against The Assaults Of The Weather: Witness So Many Nations Who Have Not Yet Tried The Use Of Any Clothes. Our Ancient Gauls Wore Hardly Any Clothes; Nor Do The Irish, Our Neighbors, Under So Cold A Sky.

No Wonder, Said An Ancient, That Chance Has So Much Power Over Us, Since It Is By Chance That We Live.

The Only Good Histories Are Those That Have Been Written By The Persons Themselves Who Commanded In The Affairs Whereof They Write.

We Only Labor To Stuff The Memory, And Leave The Conscience And The Understanding Unfurnished And Void.