Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who have been taught to consider the institutions of the schools as giving the last perfection to human abilities are surprised to see men wrinkled with study, yet wanting to be instructed in the minute circumstances of propriety, or the necessary form of daily transaction; and quickly shake off their reverence for modes of education which they find to produce no ability above the rest of mankind.

An exotic and irrational entertainment.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.