Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.