The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.

The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.

We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.

We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.