As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time; but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law; that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles.

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

Judgment is forced upon us by experience

Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.