In a heavy oppressive atmosphere, when the spirits sink too low, the best cordial is to read over all the letters of one's friends.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.

The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.