..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.

Nature never gives everything at once.