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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

The future is purchased by the present.

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.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.