As peace is the end of war, it is the end, likewise, of preparations for war; and he may be justly hunted down, as the enemy of mankind, that can choose to snatch, by violence and bloodshed, what gentler means can equally obtain

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without knowing that they are common to all the rest of the species

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel

Life is languished away in the gloom of anxiety, and consumed in collecting resolutions which the next morning dissipates in forming purposes which we scarcely hope to keep, and reconciling ourselves to our own cowardice by excuses which, while we

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression