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.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.