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

Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians - I will not speak of my own trade - soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell.

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.