None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.

Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.

Men hate more steadily than they love.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.