Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.
I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
Learn that the present hour alone is man's.
A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.