No man was ever great by imitation.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience.
It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Friendship is a union of spirits a marriage of hearts and the bond there of virtue.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life he will soon find himself left alone.
Life is a progress from want to want not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.
No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state and so is most beneficial to us.
The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.