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" Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. "

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" The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. "

" There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman. "

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

" Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. "

" The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. "

" 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. "

" It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. "

" Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. "

" 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. "

" One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. "

" Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. "

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

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

" He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. "

" Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it. "

" Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. "

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

Self-Confidence

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

" By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. "

" If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. "

" No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. "

" Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle. "

" Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich. "

" Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. "

" To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. "

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

" It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. "

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

" I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. "

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