I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.

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.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed

The true art of memory is the art of attention.