Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

Truth allows no choice.

Nothing is difficult, when gain and honour unite their influence.