When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.

To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.

Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

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