I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.

To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

Never mind the use--do it!