Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.

We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.

To get a name can happen but to few. A name, even in the most commercial nation, is one of the few things which cannot be bought . It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.

It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.