Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained
Example is always more efficacious than precept.
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.