Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.