Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility

The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.