A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself

Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.

As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.

Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains.