He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.

Social sorrow loses half its pain.

The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of literature, with resistless weapons, and impenetrable armour, with the mail of the boar of Erymanth, and the paws of the lion of Nemea.

Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without reply, and ravages without resistance. Without good humour virtue may awe by its dignity and amaze by its brightness, but must always be viewed at a distance, and will scarcely gain a friend or attract an imitator.

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.