Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incommunicative and inactive habits of their owners, are as utterly useless to others as though the possessors had them not.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.