You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!

Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.