All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.

Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages.

There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.