Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.
Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them!
I can forgive injuries, but never benefits.
The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.
One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both.