I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond endearments and tender officiousness; and, therefore, no one should think it unnecessary to learn those arts by which friendship may be gained.

The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

Indolence is the devil's cushion.