That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

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

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.