Gratitude is a lively sense of benefits to come.

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

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.