A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better understood, seemed highly probable to many of the aspiring wits in the last century

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

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.