Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.

Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.

Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.

They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.