In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.

He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise... Let him take a course of chemistry, or a course of rope-dance, or a course of any thing to which he is inclined at the time. Let him contrive to have as many retreats for his mind as he can, as many things to which it can fly from itself.

Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.