No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Was ever poet so trusted before?

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.