Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.