Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.