One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.

Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.

The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and bodies. The poor beasts here are pursued and run downby much greater beasts than themselves; and the true British fox-hunter is most undoubtedly a species appropriated and peculiar to this country, which no other part of the globe produces.

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp itsseat, and rule in its stead.

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.