The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

I advised Chambers, and would advise every young man beginning to compose, to do it as fast as he can, to get a habit of having his mind to start promptly; it is so much more difficult to improve in speed than in accuracy.

Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.