What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

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

[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury hates the abstract truths of science as much as he hates concrete truth in human affairs, now is his time for getting rid of the multiplication table, and passing a vote of censure upon the pretensions of the hypotenuse.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.