Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadsul than its extinction.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.