It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.