Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.

Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

Whatever Party of Men obtain the Reins of Management, and have power to name the Person who shall License the Press, that Party of Men have the whole power of keeping the World in Ignorance, in all matters relating to Religion or Policy, since the Writers of that Party shall have full liberty to impose their Notions upon the World.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.