Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

That we must all die, we always knew, I wish I had sooner remembred it.

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.