It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make.

If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.