My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

We neither of us perform to strangers.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.