[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance

Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.

Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.

Books are not seldom talismans and spells.

The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.