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.

Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth by falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages. A peace will equally leave the warrior and the relater of wars destitute of employment; and I know not whether more is to be dreaded from streets filled with soldiers accustomed to plunder, or from garrets filled with scribblers accustomed to lie.

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.