Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.