Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it; you will dry it away. Be always busy.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.