Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned.
He left the name at which the world grew pale To point a moral or adorn a tale.
I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
What', said he, ' makes the difference between man and all the rest of the animal creation? Every beast that strays beside me has the same corporeal necessities with myself; he is hungry and crops the...
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.
The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction.
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist]
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Moderation is commonly firm and firmness is commonly successful.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.