Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.

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

It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one.

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

Faith is necessary to victory.

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.