Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

Critics ought never to be consulted, but while errors may yet be rectified or insipidity suppressed. But when the book has once been dismissed into the world, and can be no more retouched, I know not whether a very different conduct should not be prescribed, and whether firmness and spirit may not sometimes be of use to overpower arrogance and repel brutality.

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.