Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.