To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The prizes which some have received for their multiplicity of languages may be sufficient to excite industry, but can hardly generate confidence.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

The future is bought with the present.

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.