In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.