True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

one would suffer a great deal to be happy.

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.

Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.

Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.

I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.