Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.