A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as a man who should try large shoes upon little feet, and little shoes upon large feet, and finding that they did not fit.

My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian ether.

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the danger is, that while a man grows better pleased with himself, he may be growing less pleasing to others. Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has presented.

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

That favorite subject, Myself.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.