Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
The future is purchased by the present.
Words are but the signs of ideas.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Had I learned to fiddle I should have done nothing else.
Example is more efficacious than precept.
Oats n.s. A grain which in England is generally given to horses but in Scotland supports the people.
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that he can instruct or amuse them, and the publick to whom he appeals, must, after all, be the judges of...
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned.
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.
He left the name at which the world grew pale To point a moral or adorn a tale.
Men only become friends by community of pleasures.