Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves.

Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly; and whoever, therefore, finds himself inclined to envy another, should remember that he knows not the real condition which he desires to obtain, but is certain that by indulging a vicious passion, he must lessen that happiness which he thinks already too sparingly bestowed.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.