A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.

Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.

It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day