You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.

My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.

Man is a gaming animal.

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.