Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

All is not gold that glitters, as we have often been told; and the adage is verified in your place and my favour; but if what happens does not make us richer, we must bid it welcome, if it makes us wiser.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.