Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored; and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed.

Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.