Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.

We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.

Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.

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

The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and bodies. The poor beasts here are pursued and run downby much greater beasts than themselves; and the true British fox-hunter is most undoubtedly a species appropriated and peculiar to this country, which no other part of the globe produces.