Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

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

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended amusement, in which a man shrinks to his natural dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.