We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

No man hates him at whom he can laugh.

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects.

If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.

He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife.