If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.

Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

People in distress never think that you feel enough.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.

Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.