Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.

He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.

Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.