A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy.

An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.