In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.