"Few are qualified to shine in company; but it is in most men's power to be agreeable."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."

"And it is to be hoped that no gentleman will be so uncivil as to refuse to dine upon a child who has been so well fattened."

"I have spent my time in writing, and have not been a man of action."

"It is a miserable thing to be a dependent, and to have no other resource but the favor of great men."