The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.