Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.

Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.

The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.

Men hate more steadily than they love.