Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

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

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.