Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.

This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.