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.
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition no vanity but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book I assure you.
It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.
It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the h...
While grief is fresh every attempt to divert it only irritates.
There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.