As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.

Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.

Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence.

We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.