Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour.

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.