Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce.

Give Dayrolles a chair.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes.

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.

I do not think that a Physician should be admitted into the College till he could bring proofs of his having cured, in his own person, at least four incurable distempers.

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.