All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.

The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.