Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.

There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.

Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.

To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.

Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.