Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.