Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.