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" Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. "

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" Language is the dress of thought. "

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

" When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. "

" The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" What is easy is seldom excellent. "

" So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. "

" It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. "

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

" The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression. "

" It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability. "

" The future is purchased by the present. "

" Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. "

" Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Self-Confidence

" 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. "

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