I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.

The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.