What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.

Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!

None are happy but by anticipation of change.

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?