Learning is acquired by reading books; much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.