Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

Mystery is not profoundness.

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.