Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another; to dress and to undress, to eat and to sleep, are the same in London as in the country.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.