I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the Younger affirm that he never read book so bad but he drew some profit from it.

Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.

...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

Chance is the providence of adventurers.