Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.

The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.

All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from general laws to private judgment: he, therefore, who differs form others without apparent advantage, ought not to be angry if his arrogance is punished with ridicule; if those whose example he superciliously overlooks, point him out to derision, and hoot him back again into the common road.

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.