Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.

We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.