A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

The business of life is to go forward.

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and he is by no means to be accounted useless or idle, who has stored his mind with acquired knowledge, and can detail it occasionally to others who have less leisure or weaker abilities.

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.

The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.

He that has too much to do will do something wrong.