Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

The dignity of history.

Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.