Most men are unwilling to be taught.

There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.

Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.