It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

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