This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.

Love is only one of many passions.

I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.

It may be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.