They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.

He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

The great source of pleasure is variety.