A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.

Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use.

The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.