I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.

Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction: and, without knowing why, we always rejoice when we learn, and grieve when we forget.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.

He that has too much to do will do something wrong.