The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.

[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.

I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women.

Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.

It is charming to totter into vogue.

Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.