Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

People in distress never think that you feel enough.

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Virtue is too often merely local.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.

Exercise is labor without weariness.