An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.

Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.

As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures