The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.