Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.

On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.

Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the eye of benevolence sparkles at the sight of happiness and plenty: in winter, compassion melts at universal calamity, and the tear of softness starts at the wailing of hunger and the cries of the creation in distress

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.