He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

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

All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.