No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing.

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

It is our first duty to serve society.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.