It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.

A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.