Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.

Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.

How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.