The future is purchased by the present.
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
When any fit of gloominess or perversion of mind lays hold upon you make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
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...
Example is more efficacious than precept.
We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties; an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally c...
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, a...
Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that he can instruct or amuse them, and the publick to whom he appeals, must, after all, be the judges of...
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitl...
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
The first years of man must make provision for the last.
An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate" an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry and generally satisfy...
He that has much to do will do something wrong.
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.