Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.

They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets.