No man was ever great by imitation.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.