The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.