Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected.

It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.

Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

Nothing can be truly great which is not right.