Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.

Nothing is difficult, when gain and honour unite their influence.

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.

It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to allot to accident, friendship, and a thousand causes, which concur in every event without human contrivance or interposition, the part which they may justly claim in his advancement. We rate ourselves by our fortune rather than our virtues, and exorbitant claims are quickly produced by imaginary merit.

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.