I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

Smooth your way to the head through the heart. The way of reason is a good one: but it is commonly something longer, and perhapsnot so sure.

In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but I swear that I do not know how to be deaf: I cannot get used to it, and I am as humiliated and distressed by it today as I was during the first week. No philosophy in the world can palliate deafness.