A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

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

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.