Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.