The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.

The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better that it should be so; as such common prejudices contribute more to order and quiet, than their own separate reasonings would do, uncultivated and unimproved as they are.

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

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.

The more one works, the more willing one is to work.