It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.