If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.