There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.

Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.