The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.

To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond endearments and tender officiousness; and, therefore, no one should think it unnecessary to learn those arts by which friendship may be gained.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Suspicion is very often a useless pain.

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.