The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it. While you continue to be splenetic, count upon it I will always preach. Thus much I sympathize with you that I am not cheerful enough to write, for I believe Coffee once a week is necessary to that.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.