Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur

Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.