Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.