Nature never gives everything at once.

All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted.

Nature never gives everything at once.

No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.