Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

There are some works which the authors must consign unpublished to posterity, however uncertain be the event, however hopeless be the trust. He that writes the history of his own times, if he adhere steadily to truth, will write that which his own times will not easily endure. He must be content to reposite his book till all private passions shall cease, and love and hatred give way to curiosity.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last