Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.
The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply.
Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.