The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth

Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.

The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.

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

We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.