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

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.