I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.

The future is purchased by the present.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.