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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored; and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed.

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

The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts; they do not mean to lie; but, taking no pains to be exact, they give you very false accounts. A great part of their language is proverbial; if anything rocks at all, they say it rocks like a cradle; and in this way they go on.

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

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.