A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.
Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.