To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew stone, would have been unworthy of Palladio; and to have rambled in search of shells and flowers, had but ill suited with the capacity of Newton.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

The insolence of wealth will creep out.

Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.

Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.

Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford.

No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.