To Be Thrown Upon One's Own Resources

To Inquisitive Minds Like Yours And Mine The Reflection That The Quantity Of Human Knowledge Bears No Proportion To The Quantity Of Human Ignorance Must Be In One View Rather Pleasing, Viz., That Though We Are To Live Forever We May Be Continually Amused And Delighted With Learning Something New.

Wine Makes Daily Living Easier, Less Hurried With Fewer Tensions And More Tolerance.

The Only Things Of Certainty Are Death And Taxes.

For Having Lived Long, I Have Experienced Many Instances Of Being Obliged, By Better Information Or Fuller Consideration, To Change Opinions, Even On Important Subjects, Which I Once Thought Right But Found To Be Otherwise.

A Temperate Diet Frees From Diseases; Such Are Seldom Ill, But If They Are Surprised With Sickness, They Bear It Better, And Recover Sooner; For Most Distempers Have Their Original From Repletion.