Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me