It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.

There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.