This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

Change is not made without inconvenience.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Probably no one will ever know whether it is better to wear a nightcap or not.

In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.

As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.