Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
Prosperity’s right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.
Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.
All industry must be excited by hope.
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.
An age that melts in unperceiv’d decay, And glides in modest innocence away.
Avarice is always poor.
Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.
Each change of many-colour’d life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin’d new.
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
Men hate more steadily than they love.