All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.

Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.

He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.