To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.