[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

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

When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later William IV]at Plymouth, and all three being very loose in their manners, and coarse in their language, Prince William said to his ship's crew, "now I hope you see that I am not the greatest blackguard of my family.

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