It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.

Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.

A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.

Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step.

It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.