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

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it.

The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

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

Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.