There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

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!

He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.