A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

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

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!

Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.