He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Change is not made without inconvenience.

Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom.

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.