Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.
All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.
Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.
In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.