 There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch. |
| A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. |
| Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. |
| Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. |
| To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. |
| Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. |
| Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. |
| When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. |
| What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country. |
| Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. |
| Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. |
| The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture. |
| Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. |
| There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol. |
| Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! Topics: Love |
| The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. |
| Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. |
| Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. |
| Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved. |
| Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. |
