It has been shrewdly said, that when, men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise which censure which we do not deserve; and still more rare to despise praise which we do.

Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.

No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.