Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. - Samuel Johnson

Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes,
And pause a while from learning to be wise.
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail — Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.