It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.