Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it.

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.

Chance is the providence of adventurers.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!