A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.