Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.

Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor leisure to let tender expressions soften or sink into her heart. The ball, the show, are not the dangerous places: no, 'tis the private friend, the kind consoler, the companion of the easy vacant hour, whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity, and whose conversation can sooth, without ever stretching her mind, that is the lover to be feared: he who buzzes in her ear at court, or at the opera, must be contented to buzz in vain.

If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!

All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from general laws to private judgment: he, therefore, who differs form others without apparent advantage, ought not to be angry if his arrogance is punished with ridicule; if those whose example he superciliously overlooks, point him out to derision, and hoot him back again into the common road.

Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.