 The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. |
| There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. |
| When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. |
| Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. |
| A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. |
| That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner. |
| Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. |
| He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. |
| It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt. |
| Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others. |
| Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again. |
| Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. |
| Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. |
| The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. |
| Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. |
| To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. |
| Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. |
| Language is the dress of thought. |
| It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. |
| What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. |
