No man hates him at whom he can laugh.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold indifference; but an inhabitant of the remoter parts of the kingdom is immediately distinguished by a kind of dissipated curiosity, a busy endeavour to divide his attention amongst a thousand objects, and a wild confusion of astonishment and alarm.

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.