Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which is strongly marked, and speaks the kind seldom to have mixed with any other. But there is nothing in the shape, nothing in the faculties, that shows their coming from different originals; and the varieties of climate, of nourishment, and custom, are sufficient to produce every change.

A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Happy were we all born philosophers; all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.