To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.

Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.