Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

Once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb.

In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.

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

Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.