People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

Endless is the search of truth.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.

The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?

It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him.

Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.