Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.

The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of literature, with resistless weapons, and impenetrable armour, with the mail of the boar of Erymanth, and the paws of the lion of Nemea.

To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.

I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.