Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

People in distress never think that you feel enough.