People in distress never think that you feel enough.

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.

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.

Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.

Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.