If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.

Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.

We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying the price at which they are offered to us. Every man wishes to be rich, but very few have the powers necessary to raise a sudden fortune, either by new discoveries, or by superiority of skill in any necessary employment; and among lower understandings many want the firmness and industry requisite to regular gain and gradual acquisitions.

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.