When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.

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

Style is the dress of thoughts, and let them be ever so just.

There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurtsnobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.

We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about.

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well.