Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth by falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages. A peace will equally leave the warrior and the relater of wars destitute of employment; and I know not whether more is to be dreaded from streets filled with soldiers accustomed to plunder, or from garrets filled with scribblers accustomed to lie.

The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

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

If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.