I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.