That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.

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