The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.

The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man would be rich, powerful, and famous; yet fame, power, and riches, are only the names of relative conditions, which imply the obscurity, dependence, and poverty of greater numbers.

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.