The more a man writes, the more he can write.

If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.

Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, and disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.