It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Among other pleasing errors of young minds is the opinion of their own importance. He that has not yet remarked, how little attention his contemporaries can spare from themselves, conceives all eyes turned upon himself, and imagines everyone that approaches him to be an enemy or a follower, an admirer or a spy.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.