Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.

A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Riches seldom make their owners rich.

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.