So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that acknowledges the obligations of morality and pleases his vanity with enforcing them to others, concludes himself zealous in the cause of virtue.

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

Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.

When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.