“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”

“Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.”

“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”

“Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.”

“Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.”

“Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.”

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