Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.

Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.

To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude; it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Your aspirations are your possibilities.