Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions...

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.