A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

Life protracted is protracted woe.

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.