A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

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

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.