Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.

We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?

Haste is always ungraceful.

Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.

A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

He who would remain honest ought to keep away want.