When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted, the same pleasures.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.