When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it; you will dry it away. Be always busy.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or change his course as new attractions prevail, and harass himself without advancing.

Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished.

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.