The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

It is sure the hardest science to forget!

Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.