A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book; he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas.