- Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
- He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
- Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
- I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
- Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
- All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
- A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
- Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
- What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
- Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
- When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
- Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
- Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
- It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
- The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
- By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
- Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
- Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
- I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
- Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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