Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt.

Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.