Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.