The present is never a happy state to any human being.

One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison; but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country.

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.