O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!

The first blow is half the battle.

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great.

There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.