Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes.

Once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his enlargement, than to do, with greater cunning, what he did before with less.