About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

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.

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.