You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
The insolence of wealth will creep out.
The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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.