May you live every day of your life.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
I should perhaps like others have astonished you with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principal design was to i...
Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken.
111 company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best.
There's none so blind as they that won't see.
When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
Frequently exercised in my sight, to accustom themselves to me.
Opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon.
I enjoyed perfect health of body, and tranquillity of mind; I did not feel the treachery or inconstancy of a friend, nor the injuries of a secret or open enemy. I had no occasion of bribing, flatteri...
He put this engine [a silver pocket watch] into our ears, which made an incessant noise, like that of a water-mill: and we conjecture it is either some unknown animal, or the god that he worships; but...
For instance, a crew of pirates are driven by a storm they know not whither; at length a boy discovers land from the topmast; they go on shore to rob and plunder, they see a harmless people, are enter...
When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
So that, upon the whole, there must be some kind of subjection due from every man to every man, which cannot be made void by any power, pre-eminence, or authority whatsoever.
Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.
I winked at my own littleness, as people do at their own faults.
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more...
Brutes find out where their talents lie a bear will not attempt to fly.