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.

A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.