You can never be wise unless you love reading.

When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.

For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed; that the dead should return, or the past should be recalled.

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.