In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

One must be strict even in little things.

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.

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

My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.

We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.