The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.

I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why should I hurt thee? This world is surely wide enough to hold both thee and me.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

How frequently is the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or shrug! How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped With the imputation of proceeding from bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.