I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

One can never outlive one's vanity.

I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.