Hope is the mother of faith.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

Contentment is better than divinations or visions.

Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.