If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise... Let him take a course of chemistry, or a course of rope-dance, or a course of any thing to which he is inclined at the time. Let him contrive to have as many retreats for his mind as he can, as many things to which it can fly from itself.

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.

Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.