It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.