The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.

Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern.

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!