Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.
A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.
He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.