If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.