If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.

We are more sensible of one little touch of a surgeon’s lancet than of twenty wounds with a sword in the heat of fight.

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

Nature has presented us with a large faculty of entertaining ourselves alone; and often calls us to it, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but chiefly and mostly to ourselves.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks.

I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself, and not by borrowing.