The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.
Sudden love is latest cured.
A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.