As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.

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

Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.

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

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.