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

Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken by the sun, will be pleased to see a fainter orb arise on the horizon, that may rescue him from total darkness, though with weak and borrowed lustre.

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

Nature never gives everything at once.