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

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.

What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or talent; they will more than supply all.

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.