It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.