He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.

Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.