Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.