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

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.

My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.

I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.