Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.

No man was ever great by imitation.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.