A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.

So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him -- pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.