A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.