Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
