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A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.
Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
The future is purchased by the present.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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.