Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions fortuitous, destroy the value of their friendship, obstruct the efficacy of their virtues, and set them below the meanest of those who persist in their resolutions, execute what they design, and perform what they have promised.

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.