The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.