Life is too short for a long story

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.

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

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.

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.