A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.

If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it. He must be convinced that he has a delegation from heaven.

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets