Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

The more we do, the more we can do.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.

Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.