The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.

The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature will rarely, very rarely, approve the first hints of anger.

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism however is only the result of good sense, taste and judgment--three qualities that indeed seldom are found together, and extremely seldom in a pedant, which most critics are.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.