In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.