If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.

To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles.

Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.