We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.

The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond endearments and tender officiousness; and, therefore, no one should think it unnecessary to learn those arts by which friendship may be gained.

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.