A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.