The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.