The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.