"I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney."

"Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever."

"Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral."

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

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

"Security will produce danger."

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

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

"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."

"He who praises everybody, praises nobody."

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

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

"Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye."

"Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle."

"I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance."

"There are charms made only for distance admiration."

"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything."

"Our aspirations are our possibilities."

"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."

"Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger."

"Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present"

"Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed"

"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."

"Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted."