Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.