Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.

The triumph of hope over experience.

Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished.

Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself