It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

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