Hope is itself a species of happiness.

It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected.

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.