If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.

Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.

There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.