Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.

As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.

Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.