Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then the innate principle of self-preservation, wisely implanted in our natures, for obvious purposes, opposes that wish, and makes us endeavour to spin out our thread as long as we can, however decayed and rotten it may be.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.