Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment.

Great is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears.

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.