The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

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.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.