One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.
Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.
Languages are the pedigree of nations.
There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.