No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.

A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.