We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.