Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.

Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and, in truth, our own private interest concurs in it, as it is making ourselves so many friends, instead of so many enemies.

Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

Few people do business well, who do nothing else.