If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.

It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.