We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?

Superstition is but the fear of belief.

He who would remain honest ought to keep away want.

Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the loss of our ignorance.