Ignorance Is The Softest Pillow On Which

There Is No Wish More Natural Than The Wish To Know.

Such As Are In Immediate Fear Of A Losing Their Estates, Of Banishment, Or Of Slavery, Live In Perpetual Anguish, And Lose All Appetite And Repose; Whereas Such As Are Actually Poor, Slaves, Or Exiles, Ofttimes Live As Merrily As Other Folk.

I Conceive That Pleasures Are To Be Avoided If Greater Pains Be The Consequence, And Pains To Be Coveted That Will Terminate In Greater Pleasures.

How Many Condemnations I Have Witnessed More Criminal Than The Crime!

Fortune, Seeing That She Could Not Make Fools Wise, Has Made Them Lucky.