I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.

The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.

Faults and defects every work of man must have.