We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.

The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it.

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.