There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose an old man decayed in his intellects. If a young or middle-aged man, when leaving a company, does not remember where he laid his hat, it is nothing; but if the same inattention is discovered in an old man, people will shrug up their shoulders, and say, 'His memory is going.'

A man may be so much of every thing, that he is nothing of any thing.

A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.

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 im…

It is true that that may hold in these things, which is the general root of superstition; namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and…

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Before you, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. And then you shot across the sky, like a meteor. Su…