Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.

There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.

That what cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.