What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.