A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.

One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.

Nothing can be truly great which is not right.

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.

Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears

The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.