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" You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company. "

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" 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. "

" Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. "

" 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, and commonly better company. "

" The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. "

" The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. "

" Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. "

" Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. "

" Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. "

" Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. "

" The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. "

" 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. "

" Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable. "

" He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. "

" There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. "

" Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy. "

" A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. "

" Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us. "

" Actions are visible, though motives are secret. "

" Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. "

" If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. "

" He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. "

" A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. "

" The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. "

" The true art of memory is the art of attention. "

" He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. "

" Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. "

" He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. "

" To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. "

" There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. "

" You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you. "