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" The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. "

" Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. "

" No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. "

" Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. "

" The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. "

" To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. "

" When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. "

" A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. "

" What is easy is seldom excellent. "

" Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. "

" Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all. "

" There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. "

" When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation. "

" Words are but the signs of ideas. "

" 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. "

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

" A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. "

" The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking. "

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

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

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

" To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. "

" At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest. "

" You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you. "

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

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

" Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. "

Self-Confidence

" That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner. "

" Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return. "

" We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. "