Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.

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

I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.