No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.

This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply.

He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.