"The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed."

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us."

"This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd"

"Power is not sufficient evidence of truth"

"The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy."

"Virtue is too often merely local."

"Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything."

"The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends."

"In the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to w"

"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."

"Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates"

"Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price."

"Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man."

"Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen."

"Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world."

"Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language."

"He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else."

"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

"No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize him and thus force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability"

"Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness."

"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."

"For who is pleased with himself."

"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken"

"The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years."

"Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy."

"Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor."

"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."

"There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain"

"There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain."

"He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great."

"No one ever became great by imitation."

"The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little."

"Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it."

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."

"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."

"Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things they denote"

"I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am."

"I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice."

"All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance"

"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."

"Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess."

"That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona"

"The chief glory of every people arises from its authors."

"Sir, you are giving a reason for it, but that will not make it right"

"No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality"