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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill ... Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.

Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes.

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.

For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.

For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor.

I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.

As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair. -Samuel Johnson.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.

The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.