Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine
Oh! blame not the bard.
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.