“To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.”
“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.”
“A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.”
“There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”
“A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.”
“In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.”
“Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.”
“The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.”
“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
“In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.”
“The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.”
“The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.”
“Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.”
“Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.”
“Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.”
“Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.”
“There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.”
“Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.”
“Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.”
“I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.”
“Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.”
“The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.”
“Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.”
“The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.”
“That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.”
“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
“Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.”
“Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.”
“He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.”
“The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.”