I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

Money confounds subordination.

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

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