Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.

When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

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.

In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.