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.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.