Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

Almost all women have hearts full of pity.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.

Love makes fools of us all, big and little.

Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.