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

you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.

How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.

Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.