A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

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.

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.

people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.