Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.

It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.