This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.