Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious; but, for the same reason, every one is eager to instruct his neighbors.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended amusement, in which a man shrinks to his natural dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.