Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

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

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.