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 are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.

Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape from it, because it is then too late to choose another profession; as indeed is generally the case with men, when they have once engaged in any particular way of life.

Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.