Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.