It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.