There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly.

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.