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

No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.

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

I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery.

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.