In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of which, if we neglect the apparent duties to make provision against visionary attacks, we shall certainly counteract our own purpose.

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

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

There is such a difference between the pursuits of men in great cities that one part of the inhabitants lives to little other purpose than to wonder at the rest. Some have hopes and fears, wishes and aversions, which never enter into the thoughts of others, and inquiry is laboriously exerted to gain that which those who possess it are ready to throw away.