Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.

Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.