Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape from it, because it is then too late to choose another profession; as indeed is generally the case with men, when they have once engaged in any particular way of life.

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.

We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.