Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute.

To get a name can happen but to few. A name, even in the most commercial nation, is one of the few things which cannot be bought . It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

All industry must be excited by hope.

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Never mind the use--do it!