That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.

Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble.

In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.