I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it. He must be convinced that he has a delegation from heaven.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.