Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

Without life there can be no action — no objects of pursuit — no restless desires — no tormenting passions. Hence it is that we fondly cling to it — that we dread its termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.

Good temper is an estate for life.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.