Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

I am persuaded ... that both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare; and his probation in it, precisely that of any other man militant upon earth,--both depending alike, not half so much upon the degrees of his WIT--as his RESISTANCE.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.