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.

Reflection makes men cowards.

The more we do, the more we can do.

The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.

We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.