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" Love is only one of many passions. "

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" The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. "

" Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. "

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

" A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. "

" What is easy is seldom excellent. "

" Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again. "

" If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it? "

" Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed. "

" 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. "

" To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self. "

" Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others. "

" A man will turn over half a library to make one book. "

" You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. "

" Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see. "

" The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. "

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

Self-Confidence

" Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. "

" Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. "

" It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. "

" There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. "

" Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. "

" What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. "

" It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. "

" Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. "

" What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. "

" The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. "

" A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. "

" There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. "

" 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. "

" Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. "