When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

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

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.