Silence Is Become His Mother Tongue.

The English Laws Punish Vice; The Chinese Laws Do More, They Reward Virtue.

People Seldom Improve When They Have No Other Model But Themselves To Copy.

Philosophy Can Add To Our Happiness In No Other Manner But By Diminishing Our Misery; It Should Not Pretend To Increase Our Present Stock, But Make Us Economists Of What We Are Possessed Of. Happy Were We All Born Philosophers; All Born With A Talent Of Thus Dissipating Our Own Cares By Spreading Them Upon All Mankind.

There Is Probably No Country So Barbarous That Would Not Disclose All It Knew, If It Received Equivalent Information; And I Am Apt To Think That A Person Who Was Ready To Give More Knowledge Than He Received Would Be Welcome Wherever He Came.

Our Bounty, Like A Drop Of Water, Disappears, When Diffus'd Too Widely