Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.

I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.

Language is the dress of thought.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

Gratitude is a species of justice.

Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.