Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.

I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary alike of pleasures and of cares; that the powerful and the weak, the celebrated and obscure, join in one common wish, and implore from nature's hand the nectar of oblivion.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.