There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to you previous self.

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today, because you have written down what it cost yesterday.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford