Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
A fallible being will fail somewhere.
One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.
When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.
I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.
There is ... scarcely any species of writing of which we can tell what is its essence, and what are its constituents; every new genius produces some innovation, which, when invented and approved, subverts the rules which the practice of foregoing authors had established.