It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.

Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.