And still, laughter is akin to weeping.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.

Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.

As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends - Dress is a table of your contents.

Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.