But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.

Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.