Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.

Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.