Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.

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

The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.

The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.