"As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease."

"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy."

"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning."

"They say women and music should never be dated."

"I chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well."

"Honour sinks where commerce long prevails."

"A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond."

"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy."

"The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition."

"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook."

"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."

"Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better."

"Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same."

"Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw."

"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."

"Where wealth accumulates, men decay."

"With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive."

"And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew."

"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."

"Tenderness is a virtue."

"On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting."

"All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little."

"Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long."

"Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse."

"If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales."

"Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law."

"A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future."

"The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself."

"If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich."

"Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!"

"The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing"

"When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?"

"No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it."

"A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home."

"And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray."

"Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes."

"Honor sinks where commerce long prevails."

"Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success."

"Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will."

"I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too."

"Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side."

"Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest"

"We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown."

"Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative."

"People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable."

"The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it"

"Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."

"Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones."

"I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well."