- Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
- Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
- Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
- The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
- No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
- No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
- It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
- Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
- When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
- When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
- He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
- He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
- A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
- Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
- The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
- Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
- Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
- All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
- Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
- We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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