The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.

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

Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.

All history was at first oral.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

It is, however, not necessary, that a man should forbear to write, till he has discovered some truth unknown before; he may be sufficiently useful, by only diversifying the surface of knowledge, and luring the mind by a new appearance to a second view of those beauties which it had passed over inattentively before.