A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

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.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

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.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.