Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.

Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.

Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.