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.

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery.

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.