Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

The present is never a happy state to any human being.

Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.