Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
From Samuel Johnson
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
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.
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
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