Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.

A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger.

A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, were exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.