[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.

Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?