Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
The first years of man must make provision for the last.
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...
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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.
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Languages are the pedigree of nations.
In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.
The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Moderation is commonly firm and firmness is commonly successful.
I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
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.
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Despair is criminal.
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorro...
Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist]
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.