Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.