I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

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

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.