Never mind the use--do it!

As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.