Keep away from the fire!

Men tire themselves in the pursuit of sleep.

I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us--but I seldom resist him at all; from a terror, that though I may conquer, I may still get a hurt in the combat--soinstead of thinking to make him fly, I generally fly myself.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.

The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.

Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?