John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired.

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.