It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.

Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.