"Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages."

"I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much."

"In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness."

"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book."

"So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side."

"Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity."

"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little."

"Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise."

"Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected."

"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."

"Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less."

"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport."

"He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides."

"The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days."

"A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market."

"Riches are chiefly good because they give us time."

"I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible."

"Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult."

"Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities."

"Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow."

"This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed."

"A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them."

"He who praises everybody, praises nobody."

"The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain."

"Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument."

"Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance."

"The great source of pleasure is variety"

"Security will produce danger."

"My Dear Sir: Are you playing the same trick again, and trying who can keep silence longest? Remember that all tricks are either knavish or childish; and that it is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity o"

"You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword"

"Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do."

"Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate."

"A vow is a snare for sin"

"Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad."

"That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem."

"He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them."

"It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art."

"Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use."

"When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live"

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."

"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle."

"Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion."

"There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved."

"Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it."

"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."

"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly."

"Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off."

"We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself."

"Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year."

"For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die."