He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is filled up. I do not, however, envy a fellow one of those honeysuckle wives for my part, as they are but creepers at best and commonly destroy the tree they so tenderly cling about.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.