The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upontheir dogs, so as neither to oblige man nor dogs. It is no wonder if favours, benefits, and even charities thus bestowed ungraciously, should be as coldly and faintly acknowledged.

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step.

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must take them as they are.

People hate who makes you feel one's inferiority.

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.