We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

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

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.