A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.

So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.

The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.