Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

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

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

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 wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.