Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of nature which are most proper for imitation: greater care is still required in representing life, which is so often discoloured by passion or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account; or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination.

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company