Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.
Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.
The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.
The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.
Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.
We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.
We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.
We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.
Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.
Most men are unwilling to be taught.
He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.
Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.
He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.
The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.
As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.
Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.
We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating.
As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.