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

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.

I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.

It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen.