Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one.

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

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

Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, asit is called, which is the manner of exerting that disposition, is different in almost every country, and merely local; and every man of sense imitates and conforms to that local good breeding of the place which he is at.