Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is procured by offices of which the mind shrinks from the contemplation. All the delicacies of the table may be traced back to the shambles and the dunghill; all magnificence of building was hewn from the quarry, and all the pomp of ornament dug from among the damps and darkness of the mine.

No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.

The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.

All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.