He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.