If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it; an object of desire placed out of the possibility of fruition.

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.