If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

No furniture is so charming as books.

The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.