One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
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.
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.
A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction: and, without knowing why, we always rejoice when we learn, and grieve when we forget.