Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.