The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memories of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has something for every age to investigate. nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.