One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and never yet produced conviction in a single mind.

That we must all die, we always knew, I wish I had sooner remembred it.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.