The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.

No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.