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

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

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

I went to my father's at night. He spoke of poor John [Boswell's brother] with disgust. I was shocked and said, "He's your son, and God made him." He answered very harshly, "If my sons are idiots, can I help it?

Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.

We must take our friends as they are.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.