Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparison with others, he has some invisible distinctions, some latent reserve of excellence, which he throws into the balance, and by which he generally fancies that it is turned in his favour.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.

No one ever became great by imitation.