Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

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

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

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

But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.